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We present Poisson Binomial Mechanism Vertical Federated Learning (PBM-VFL), a communication-efficient Vertical Federated Learning algorithm with Differential Privacy guarantees. PBM-VFL combines Secure Multi-Party Computation with the…

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Federated learning (FL) enables distributed participants to collaboratively learn a global model without revealing their private data to each other. Recently, vertical FL, where the participants hold the same set of samples but with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Yang Liu , Anran Li , Ye Wu

Federated learning (FL) has attracted significant attention for enabling collaborative learning without exposing private data. Among the primary variants of FL, vertical federated learning (VFL) addresses feature-partitioned data held by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kihun Hong , Sejun Park , Ganguk Hwang

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning technique that facilitates collaboration among participants across demographics. FL enables model sharing, while restricting the movement of data. Since FL provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Harsh Kasyap , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu , Carsten Maple , Somanath Tripathy

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has attracted greater and greater interest since it enables multiple parties possessing non-overlapping features to strengthen their machine learning models without disclosing their private data and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Changxin Liu , Zhenan Fan , Zirui Zhou , Yang Shi , Jian Pei , Lingyang Chu , Yong Zhang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a critical approach in machine learning to address privacy concerns associated with centralized data storage and processing. VFL facilitates collaboration among multiple entities with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yue Cui , Chung-ju Huang , Yuzhu Zhang , Leye Wang , Lixin Fan , Xiaofang Zhou , Qiang Yang

Though vertical federated learning (VFL) is generally considered to be privacy-preserving, recent studies have shown that VFL system is vulnerable to label inference attacks originating from various attack surfaces. Among these attacks, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juntao Tan , Lan Zhang , Zhonghao Hu , Kai Yang , Peng Ran , Bo Li

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has emerged as a collaborative training paradigm that allows participants with different features of the same group of users to accomplish cooperative training without exposing their raw data or model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tianyuan Zou , Zixuan Gu , Yu He , Hideaki Takahashi , Yang Liu , Ya-Qin Zhang

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving paradigm for training collective machine learning models with locally stored data from multiple participants. Vertical federated learning (VFL) deals with the case where participants sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Siwei Feng , Han Yu

Existing Vertical FL (VFL) methods often struggle with realistic and unaligned data partitions, and incur into high communication costs and significant operational complexity. This work introduces a novel approach to VFL, Active Participant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jon Irureta , Jon Imaz , Aizea Lojo , Javier Fernandez-Marques , Marco González , Iñigo Perona

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) aims to enable collaborative training of deep learning models while maintaining privacy protection. However, the VFL procedure still has components that are vulnerable to attacks by malicious parties. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Andrei Semenov , Philip Zmushko , Alexander Pichugin , Aleksandr Beznosikov

The effective detection of evidence of financial anomalies requires collaboration among multiple entities who own a diverse set of data, such as a payment network system (PNS) and its partner banks. Trust among these financial institutions…

Federated learning (FL) provides autonomy and privacy by design to participating peers, who cooperatively build a machine learning (ML) model while keeping their private data in their devices. However, that same autonomy opens the door for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Najeeb Moharram Jebreel , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) enables organizations with disjoint feature spaces but shared user bases to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. However, existing VFL systems face critical limitations: they often lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sindhuja Madabushi , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Haider Ali , Jin-Hee Cho

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

Federated Learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to collectively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. However, recent studies demonstrate that information exchanged during FL is subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Pengxin Guo , Shuang Zeng , Wenhao Chen , Xiaodan Zhang , Weihong Ren , Yuyin Zhou , Liangqiong Qu

The emergence of vertical federated learning (VFL) has stimulated concerns about the imperfection in privacy protection, as shared feature embeddings may reveal sensitive information under privacy attacks. This paper studies the delicate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxi Mi , Hongquan Liu , Yewei Xia , Yiheng Sun , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou

Privacy attacks on Machine Learning (ML) models often focus on inferring the existence of particular data points in the training data. However, what the adversary really wants to know is if a particular individual's (subject's) data was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Anshuman Suri , Pallika Kanani , Virendra J. Marathe , Daniel W. Peterson

In terms of artificial intelligence, there are several security and privacy deficiencies in the traditional centralized training methods of machine learning models by a server. To address this limitation, federated learning (FL) has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yao Chen , Yijie Gui , Hong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Yongdong Wu

Federated Contrastive Learning (FCL) represents a burgeoning approach for learning from decentralized unlabeled data while upholding data privacy. In FCL, participant clients collaborate in learning a global encoder using unlabeled data,…

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